Case report: Recurrent piriformis syndrome after surgical release

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 466, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1745-1748

  Kobbe, Philipp ^a   Zelle, Boris A ^a   Gruen, Garry S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; POLITEF; BIOMATERIAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; ISCHIALGIA; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; PAIN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; SCAR; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY;

ADULT; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CICATRIX; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY;

EID: 45849144443     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-008-0151-5     Document Type: Article

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